美国夢沃学校(上海)外教文章：什么是你的乌托邦

What’s Your Utopia?

By Christopher Moses, Montverde Academy Shanghai Faculty

B.A. Reed College, A.B.D. Princeton University

作者：Christopher Moses, 美国夢沃学校(上海)教师

本科毕业于里德学院，现普林斯顿大学准博士(仅须论文答辩环节)

Before the Christmas holiday, students in A.P. United States History expanded their understanding of utopian movements by designing their own.

圣诞假期前，学生在AP美国历史课上进一步展开了对乌托邦运动的理解和研究。

The class had just studied many of the groups during the pre-Civil-War era, like the Mormons, Shakers, and other visionaries and idealists, that wished to create communities ordered by newfound religious, moral or economic principles.

课上研究了很多内战前期的组织(1815–1850)，如摩门，夏克，和一些其他的空想家和理想主义者，希望用新出现的更具宗教意义的，道德的或更有经济效益的理念建立新的社会。

Working in pairs, the students had to ask abroad range of questions about their prospective society, focusing on bothbig-picture concerns like their goals and values, as well as moredetail-oriented issues, like admission criteria, size and gender ratios.

学生两人一组，分别向对方理想中的未来社会提出各种问题，侧重于理想社会的目标和价值等，以及一些更细节的问题，如入住标准，面积大小和性别比例等。

"The project really improved my research and brainstorming skills," said Qian Yuhang (Benjamin), who imagined an entrepreneurial incubator as an environment most attractive for contemporary people looking for an ideal world.

"这个题目确实提高了我的研究水平和思维方式，"钱余杭说(本杰明)，一个想像到以企业孵化器作为一种环境的学生-最吸引当代人追求的理想社会。

In addition to researching and brainstorming, students also had to make posters that advertised their Utopias,and to offer a presentation that subjected them to a tough question-and-answer session.

除了研究和讨论，学生们还必须做出海报宣传自己的乌托邦，并迫使他们把事先准备好讲稿的演讲转变为一问一答的形式。

"It provided me with a great opportunity to think as a leader of a country and to imagine what is essential for a stable society," reflected Wei Jiaman (Carman).

"这个题目为我提供了一个很好的机会去思考作为一个国家的领导人还有想象什么才是社会稳定至关重要的因素，"魏佳曼说(卡曼)。

Indeed, having had to respond to queries about everything from their economic models to the structure of their government, from rules about family size to whether and why a person could beexpelled, students fully appreciated the complexity of the task set before them—and of the history they had been studying.

事实上，对自己理想中的社会的经济模式，**结构，家庭大小，甚至一个人为什么会被驱逐等规则不得不做出的种种疑虑，让学生们充分理解了统治者面临的任务和复杂性，这就是他们一直在研究的所谓的历史。

"I understand," Wei adds "why most of the Utopias failed."

"我明白了，"魏佳曼补充到"为什么大多数的乌托邦会失败。"

Chinese translation by Huini Hu.

Christopher Moses received his B.A. in History from Reed College, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and continued his studies in graduate school at Princeton University. Chris has worked in college admissions and as a college counselor, and before coming to China he was a teacher and Dean of Students at an independent school in New York City. He is a founding member of the MVA Shanghai faculty. He’s currently teaching English and U.S. History.

中文翻译：胡慧妮。

本文作者Christopher Moses 从里德学院获得历史学学士学位，并作为"Phi Beta Kappa优秀学生"毕业(Phi Beta Kappa为美国极富盛名的一个荣誉团体，学业异常优秀的学生方可成为该团体的成员)。随后在普林斯顿大学继续研究生学习。Chris过往职位*括招生官，升学顾问，以及在纽约城独立学校担任学生处主任。他是美国夢沃学校(上海)的创立者之一。目前他讲授英语和美国历史课。

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